Like a lot of white people, I learned to ignore the whiteness of myself and other outdoor enthusiasts around me. I didn’t hear backpackers saying overtly racist things or see jerks physically blocking people of color from the trails, so I paid the homogeneity no mind.

TechJunkie wrote:The Trump supporters gradually tiptoe out of the closet...

Or just another case of Trump Derangement Syndrome blinding people from the obvious. The Slammer recently made a blatant anti-Trump post, but it was considered it to be "applause for Trump" because....well.....still waiting for an explanation on that one. LOL!

It's that sort of black-and-white thinking which got us to this point. One can tacitly approve of some things Trump does, and not approve of others. For example, I'm not a fan of his sudden propensity for war. It's very troubling to say the least. American lives are not worth whatever the fuck is going on over in the sandbox. In the eyes of the progressive, and yes, some conservatives too, there's no room for variation, and third party votes are considered a cardinal sin. I've lost track of the amount of people, post-Trump who blamed me and others who did what I did, for "ruining" the country.

So, instead of exercising our individual right to vote for whomever the hell we wanted to, we were supposed to do our "duty" and vote for someone we weren't comfortable with, the old "hold your nose" syndrome that has plagued US politics since forever. The minute someone tells me that it's some sort of duty to vote for a specific person, I tune them out - it's basically counter to individual rights. But government masturbators get off on oppressing the individual, it gives them that little tingly rush of "doing something".

"It's not fair to call me a Trump supporter! All I did was vote for him. And advocate for all of his most extreme policies for years. And attack his opponent with the same kind of misogynism as him since I support that. But don't call me a Trump supporter!"

Tech, you must have the worst memory of anyone who has ever posted here....

slamminshaun wrote:

TechJunkie wrote:Some day Shaun is going to say that he never supported Trump. Since of course soon everybody will look back at Trump as a laughingstock. But this page will still be sitting there on the Internet.